"Tim Streater" wrote in message
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Tony Bryer wrote:

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 11:39:09 +0100 Tim Streater wrote :
Yes, in fact does anyone know why places like Manchester, Edinburgh,
are putting in trams at ruinous expense instead of electric trolley
busses? Apart from the willy-waving factor, that is.

Carrying capacity? Our newest 'Bumblebee' 5-section trams can take up to
240 people.

Course your city has to have been built from scratch with trams in mind,
or if old to have wide boulevards. Most of which doesn't apply in the UK.

Liverpool's boulevards were built to take trams in the centres. The city's
tram network was the by far the biggest.

Trolley busses don't, of course, have the limitations that trams have.

It is like talking to children. Trolleybuses are silly the regularly run off
the wires. Wires are expensive and ugly. Supercap buses have eclipsed trams
and trolleybuses.